Short Descriptions

acinstall

A script that installs aclocal-style M4 files

aclocal

Generates aclocal.m4 files
based on the contents of configure.in files

aclocal-1.14

A hard link to aclocal

automake

A tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files from Makefile.am files. To create all the
Makefile.in files for a
package, run this program in the top-level directory. By
scanning the configure.in
file, it automatically finds each appropriate
Makefile.am file and
generates the corresponding Makefile.in file

automake-1.14

A hard link to automake

compile

A wrapper for compilers

config.guess

A script that attempts to guess the canonical triplet for
the given build, host, or target architecture

config.sub

A configuration validation subroutine script

depcomp

A script for compiling a program so that dependency
information is generated in addition to the desired
output

install-sh

A script that installs a program, script, or data file

mdate-sh

A script that prints the modification time of a file or
directory

missing

A script acting as a common stub for missing GNU programs
during an installation